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Cumulus arcus clouds have a gust front, [26] and cumulus tuba clouds have funnel clouds or tornadoes. [27] Cumulus pileus clouds refer to cumulus clouds that have grown so rapidly as to force the formation of pileus over the top of the cloud. [28] Cumulus velum clouds have an ice crystal veil over the growing top of the cloud. [19]
Cumulus fractus (WMO genus and species) – ragged detached portions of cumulus cloud. Cumulus humilis (WMO genus and species) – small, low, flattened cumulus, early development. Cumulus mediocris (WMO genus and species) – medium-sized cumulus with bulges at the top. Cumulus pileus (WMO genus and accessory cloud) – capped, hood-shaped ...
Clouds form when the dew point temperature of water is reached in the presence of condensation nuclei in the troposphere. The atmosphere is a dynamic system, and the local conditions of turbulence, uplift, and other parameters give rise to many types of clouds. Various types of cloud occur frequently enough to have been categorized.
Towering, dense clouds with a flat, anvil-shaped top. Develops from cumulus clouds and can reach great heights, often associated with thunderstorms.
If the air becomes more unstable, the cloud tends to grow vertically into the species mediocris, then strongly convective congestus, the tallest cumulus species [74] which is the same type that the International Civil Aviation Organization refers to as 'towering cumulus'. [9] Cumulus mediocris cloud, about to turn into a cumulus congestus
Mammatus cloud seen at puthenpeedika,india Mammatus clouds formation in Coimbatore, India Mammatus clouds over the Nepal Himalayas. Mammatus (also called mamma [1] or mammatocumulus, meaning "mammary cloud") is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, typically a cumulonimbus raincloud, although they may be attached to other classes of parent clouds.
Clouds don't fall because the rising air that they form out of keeps them floating in the air. The air below the cloud is denser and allows it to float atop. The air below the cloud is denser and ...
Satellite images show clouds during the October 3, 2005, solar eclipse over Africa (in the west, left) and the Indian Ocean (in the east, right). ... Shallow cumulus clouds are among the better ...